Hope Pit

HER Number

1118

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Hope Pit

Place

Longbenton

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Hope Pit is a probable old coal mine dating to before the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1858.

Easting

429000

Northing

569390

Grid Reference

NZ429000569390

Sources

<< HER 1118 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89